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I have been toying with using Increments in a tournament for a while. I might give it a go with the next one, just need to work out a good time to use
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There is a budget for international chess - if any money is left after olympiad expenses, entry fees etc we could organise a training event. Also Paul Motwani is coming to Scotland in May.
Trainers are very important. Can we have more budget ?
Look what Ivan Lendl has done.
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Incremental Time controls are terrible, please let us not ruin chess in Scotland by introducing them here!
Players need to learn to manage their time, if you run out of time in a "winning position" then tough, learn to move faster!
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I'm not a huge fan of them either, but whether they're better or not is beside the point. All major international events these days use them, so the question is whether we should endeavour to adopt incremental controls - if feasible, though I was going to make Clement's point if he hadn't already got there; 100-move games are rare - at some domestic events to adequately prepare our adult and junior internationalists. I think we should at least consider it.
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I'm just waiting to hear but it it entirely possible that the rules for a draw claim may have changed and arbiters may have the option of giving the players a time plus increment instead of playing on.
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Hugh Brechin Wrote:I'm not a huge fan of them either, but whether they're better or not is beside the point. All major international events these days use them, so the question is whether we should endeavour to adopt incremental controls - if feasible, though I was going to make Clement's point if he hadn't already got there; 100-move games are rare - at some domestic events to adequately prepare our adult and junior internationalists. I think we should at least consider it.
I can't really agree, the number of players in Scotland who play regulary in international events is pretty small, not enough to justify changing the time controls in domestic events.
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I wonder - would I cause any offense if I said that the number of congresses in Scotland that Joe Redpath attends is pretty small*, not enough to justify not experimenting with incremental time controls?
* I was thinking of writing "zero" rather than "pretty small", but some clever-clogs might have replied that if the Big Bang theory is correct the whole universe started from zero, so zero may not be a pretty small number.